Bottle. Amber-brown beer with a dark cream head. Sour and bourbon aroma with red wine and sweet malt. Sour and bourbon flavor with malt and light caramel. Medium bodied. Sour and bourbon lingers with malt and caramel.

12 oz bottle purchased at Gomers South in Kansas City, Missouri. Best after 4/30/13 on the label. I am drinking this one early to see if I should stock up on a few more for the cellar. The pour is a hazy brown orange golden with a firm two inch head, that eventually breaks up slowly with some decent sized bubbles. Nice pretty lacing left behind as the beer falls. The aroma is soft malt, wood notes, both fresh oak, and more aged, along with gentle light boozy notes. There is a pepper like spice, but it has no sharpness whatsoever, almost rye like. The red wine notes waft out in the back, adding nice depth and complexity. Really well integrated nose. The taste is strong malt up front, featuring the wood and whisky, then turning mid taste towards the tannic earthy, and grape (fruit and skin) of the Red Wine. The wood lingers, tasting of cedar and fresh oak. The finish has perceptible heat, though that worked well with the big malt, whisky and wine flavors. Normally, this is not my type of beer at all, but the flavors play really nicely together and there is a gentleness to the wood and booze. The palate is full bodied, chewy almost, with soft natural carbonation and the tannic hot finish. This was a fun beer out of the gate, plan to grab a couple more to taste as it ages.

12 ounce bottle. Pours a deep mostly clear ruby color with a medium light brown head. A superb rich fruity and oak nose, almost vinous, berries. The flavor is rich reminiscent of a sour Adam, bourbon, berries, earthy, pronounced bourbon. Damn good. Festive. Light sourness with vanilla and big bourbon.

Bottle with thanks to gorditoabd. Body is a ruddy brown with a minimal head and sour and tangy aromas with an underlying sweetness. First sip shows that this is an odd bird. Kind of sour and cloying at the same time. Not sure I totally approve of this one. I can see what they are trying to do, but it’s not for me.